OSR outputs in 2024/25

Assessments

Assessment reports published

• Higher Education Graduate Outcomes Data and Statistics
• Spotlight on Quality Assessment: Statistics on UK Business Enterprise Research and Development (BERD)
• Spotlight on Quality Assessment: Statistics on Northern Ireland’s Business Expenditure on Research and Development (NI BERD)
• Admin-Based Population Estimates for England and Wales
• Review of Statistics on Gender Identity based on Data Collected as part of the 2021 England and Wales Census: Final Report
• Spotlight on Quality Assessment: Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR)
• Spotlight on Quality Assessment: Statistics on Business Investment
• Workforce Employed by Adult Social Services Departments in England
• 2021 Census in Northern Ireland

Assessments closed

• Statistics from the Annual Business Survey
• Statistics about Butterflies, England and UK
• Personal Independence Payment statistics
• Higher Education Graduate Outcomes Data and Statistics
• Workforce Employed by Adult Social Services Departments in England

Accreditations and suspensions

New OS accreditations

• Statistics about Butterflies, England and UK
• Workforce Employed by Adult Social Services Departments in England
• Personal Independence Payment Statistics
• Higher Education Graduate Outcomes Data and Statistics
• Workforce Employed by Adult Social Services Departments in England

Confirmations of OS accreditation

• Statistics from the Annual Business Survey
• Statistics on Council Tax in Wales
• Social Housing Lettings in England
• Higher Education Student Statistics
• Police Powers and Procedures: Stop and Search and Arrests in England and Wales
• Individual Insolvency and Company Insolvency Statistics (transferred from quarterly to monthly statistics)
• Scottish Mental Health Officers Statistics
• Statistics on Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain (including new adjusted estimates of injury severity)
• Scottish Health Survey Statistics
• Criminal Court Statistics

OS re-accreditations

• Crime Survey for England and Wales

Suspensions

• Sea Fisheries Statistics
• Trade Union Membership statistics
• Labour Market Statistics (APS)
• Young People Not in Education, Employment or training (NEET)
• Welsh Language data from the APS
• Scottish Monthly Labour Market Trends outputs
• Business Population Estimates
• Gender Identity, England and Wales: Census 2021
• Statistics produced using the Annual Population Survey (APS) for Wales
• Adult Smoking Habits in the UK produced using the APS
• Health State Life Expectancies in England, Northern Ireland and Wales produced using the APS
• Labour Market in Regions of the UK produced using the APS
• Population of the UK by Country of Birth and Nationality produced using the APS
• Personal Well-being in the UK produced using the APS
• Regional Gross Disposable Household Income produced using the APS

Compliance checks

To confirm continued OS accreditation

• Scottish Health Survey Statistics
• Statistics on Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain
• Scottish Mental Health Officers Statistics
• Individual Insolvency and Company Insolvency Statistics
• Statistics on Police Powers and Procedures: Stop and Search and Arrests in England and Wales
• Higher Education Student Statistics
• Social Housing Lettings in England
• Statistics on Council Tax in Wales

To inform development of statistics by the producer

• Statistics in development from the Winter Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Study, England and Scotland
• Disability Payment Statistics
• Review of the Quality of Criminal Court Statistics for England and Wales
• Murder, manslaughter and sexual offences in the Service Justice System

Strategic reviews (including systemic reviews)

• The Quality of Police Recorded Crime statistics for England and Wales
• Data Sharing and Linkage for the Public Good: Follow-Up Report
• State of the Statistical System 2024
• Ensuring Confidence in the Economic Statistics Classification Process
• Office for National Statistics’ reintroduced Labour Force Survey (LFS)-derived labour market statistics: OSR progress report, July 2024

• Statistics from the Labour Force Survey (Progress Report). February 2025
• Review of Fraud and Computer Misuse Statistics for England and Wales (published 3 April 2025)*
• Systemic Review of ONS Economic Statistics (published 7 April 2025)*

Regulatory research, development and guidance

• Office for Statistics Regulation Business Plan 2024/25
• Statistics for the Public Good: Facilitating their Role in Public Policy
• The Use of Official Statistics in UK Public Policy: Facilitators and Barriers
• Election 2024: What to look out for
• Spotlight on Quality Framework: Assuring Confidence in Economic Statistics
• Office for Statistics Regulation Annual Report 2023/24

• What Does OSR Think About Misleadingness?
• Final Update in Response to the Sturgis Report on OSR’s Approach to Quality Assessing the Covid Infection Survey
• Annual Review of Casework 2023-24
• A Think Piece on Value and GDP
• Statistics on Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom
• Statistics in Personal Decision-Making

Blogs

OSR blogs

• Data in Debate: The Role of Statistics in Elections
• Understanding the Complexities of Crime Statistics
• Earned, Not Given: Public Confidence in Statistics and How This Informs OSR’s Work
• Is a Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words?
• Revising GDP: The Challenge of Uncertainty
• Ed Humpherson Reflects on Why Communicating Uncertainty is a Constant Challenge for Statisticians
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? Why the Misleading Presentation of Statistics Cannot Be Dismissed as Just a Matter of Opinion
• Data Sharing and Linkage for the Public Good: Breaking Down Barriers
• Commenting on Conference Speeches
• Learning Lessons from Statistics: My Experience as an Intern at OSR
• Embedding the Habit of Intelligent Transparency
• The Importance of Separation: Ed Humpherson Addresses Questions Raised by the Lievesley Review
• Just Three Words – The Birth of a Code
• The Power of Public Engagement in Shaping Our Work
• The Power of Conversation
• Quality Under Challenge: Regulating Statistics and Data from the Labour Force Survey
• Beyond GDP: Redefining Economic Progress
• A Reason To Be Optimistic: Sharing and Linking Data on Road Traffic Collisions
• Beyond GDP? Yes – But How Far?
• How Official Statistics Shape Personal Decisions

Guest blogs

• Fostering a Robust Government Evaluation Culture (Catherine Hutchinson, Head of the Evaluation Task Force)
• Transparency, Integrity, and Independence: The Keys to Improving Budget Scrutiny and Public Understanding of Risks to Public Finances (Silvia Palombi)
• Achieving Linked Data Insights to Improve Lives: A Leadership Perspective (Emma Gordon, Director, Strategic Hub, ADR UK)
• Collaborative Leadership: Drawing on our Different Strengths to Answer Important Questions (Scott Heald, Head of Profession for Statistics, Public Health Scotland)
• Ensuring That Analytical Leadership is Fit for The Future (Paul Matthews, a Senior Statistician working in the Office of the Chief Statistician (OCS) in Scottish Government)
• Demonstrating Transparency and Integrity to Support Public Trust (Robert Cann, Policy and Government Relations Manager at Full Fact)
• What Do You Do with a Degree in Philosophy? (PhD student, Kyle Adams, from the University of Waterloo)
• Improving Mental Health Services in Northern Ireland: The Regional Mental Health Outcomes Framework (Oscar Donnelly, Lead for the Mental Health Outcomes Framework)
• Culture, Psychological Safety, and the Impact on Quality (Dr James Tucker, Deputy Director for Health, International and Partnerships at the Office for National Statistics)
• Lessons in Communicating Uncertainty from the Infected Blood Inquiry: What To Say When Statistics Don’t Have The Answers (Sir David Spiegelhalter)
• Embracing Challenge for Change (Darren Watson, Principal Environmental, Analyst, Office for Environment Protection)
• The Code, The Key and (for fans of 90s dance music) The Secret (Paul Matthews, Head of Profession for Statistics in Scottish Government)

*Not included in the numbers of outputs reported for 2024/25 as dates fall in early April 2025. Included here so we can reference the important work in 2024/25 that informed the publications.